OT - Reddit CFB Risk Update 6/18: Only 16 Turns Remain
Today we are up to 22 territories total and find ourselves in second place behind our ally, Florida, who has 23 territories. Nebraska is in third place with 18 territories with Georgia Tech on their tails with 16 territories. Unfortunately, we did lose a little bit of ground in the northeast. We had planned on leaving those territories for Clemson to solely attack because of the precarious position they were in, but they had some poor luck for the third night in a row and find themselves in a similar spot today. We have some plans moving forward with Clemson to help them out. Elsewhere, Florida is doing great work in fighting Nebraska out west and keeping them fully occupied. Georgia Tech has made some great progress the last few days and has been able to devote much of their resources to the Buckeyes. Texas is doing the dirty work in the southeast by fighting back Nebraska and Alabama from Florida's base of operations to allow them to continue their rogue missions out west.
There are only 16 turns left in the game! So please remember to stay active for this home stretch. We have a very real shot at winning.
Announcement: Please don’t post your orders anywhere (mgoblog included). Other teams visit this blog in hopes of seeing what we will be doing, and it would be much better it if they were left in the dark. If you have a question about an assignment, try to ask it in general terms, instead of naming specific territories.
Steps To Play Every Day:
- Sign up for a reddit.com account if you don’t have one already
- Visit https://flair.redditcfb.com/ " go to “find by conference," click “FBS” then “Big 10” and finally “Michigan” to set yourself as a member of our team. Click “Update Flair” to set it.
- Visit https://michigancfbrisk.com/ and click “Get Order!”
- Click the blue chessboard beneath the logo that you’re meant to attack/defend to take you to the game.
- Scroll down, now, and on the right hand side of the screen, you will see the options that you can attack or defend. Click the school logo that you were assigned to
Do not ever attack any territory that is owned by one of our allies unless specifically told to do so in your orders. Our allies are Clemson, Florida, Georgia Tech, and Texas. If you get an order to attack an ally owned territory then it means we are coordinating with them, so it is acceptable. Otherwise, do not attack allied territories or defend territories that allies border please!
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Daily Map:
And I only need 18 turns, including today, to get to 5 stars. :(
I’m in one star purgatory but oh well, all the more reason to beat these bastards who changed the rules mid-way to favor the other times.
Michigan against the world.
I look at map and cannot see a clear winner in 16 turns. How? Was this another arbitrary rules change?
Mods decided that whoever has the most territories July 4th wins.
I've got a question for anyone with an idea. According to my risk page, I'm apparently still 0 stars with no turns played. But when I click on my history, it's shows my "votes". Updating doesn't do anything, clearing cache, history, cookies, blah, blah, blah doesn't change anything. Thoughts?
Contact the game mod.
they think you are a bot
The bot thing went away. But that's what it seems like.
All I know is that those of us in southeast Michigan cannot withstand being taken over by Ohio State again. As it stands, it will take days to clean out all of these coolers.
Why the fuck did GT come after us?
They didn't. Any territories we owned that GT got were bordered by OSU/Wisconsin. Sometimes it's better to throw multiple stars from the alliance on them to make sure it doesn't fall into enemy hands.
That makes sense if it was discussed. Guess I wont attack GT then
Clemson is a liability. Looking after them is a fools errand.
Its time to rumble.
Agreed, when alliances were formed we should've made some sort of minimum stars/users agreement. If you fall below that we are allowed to attack you. Having 1 territory, I doubt many of their users are good about playing daily now. They are essentially hurting us because they have a valuable territory in our area that we cannot help defend.
They have about 1000 star power total and we have about 4000 star power. Them fully coordinating with us every turn effectively gives us a 25% power increase. Clemson has been one of our best allies. They are a huge help.
Almost 700, and about 18% of us... Still could be valuable, but I'm guessing their participation is starting to diminish now that they are tied for being the weakest team in the game.
The stars are weighted. The stats on the leaderboard of the game page are not accurate because it just counts total stars. When in reality a 5 star player is about 32 times as powerful as a 1 star player.
Clemson's participation is doing fine. They are helping us. Trust me.
Tied for weakest? They far outnumber both Stanford and Virginia Tech and have previously been of great help to the cause. They are just in a bad spot right now due to a run of bad luck (sound familiar?) - they should bounce back soon enough.
Clemson is occupying some resources from OSU and Wisky, which is a good thing.
HI and AK are both Stanford territories.
I'm not above begging.
It is super easy to get involved so if you haven't, please consider it. If you signed up but haven't done much, login again and get your orders for a few days. The more players we have the better the block M does. it is a game where having a large number of players, even pawn such as myself helps. If you can join for just a few days, we can stomp out the OSU insurgency then we can make Nebraska pay for their Frostian ways. This is America and it should be Maize-ifest destiny from sea to shining sea (with the exception of our most excellent allies).
to be clear the opinions expressed above are mine and are not orders from the power that be. Obviously we should all hate OSU and hope they lose so they can go back to pooping in coolers like their grandpappies.
How does the Overall Star Rating work?
I am a 1-1-1-3-5 for the categories, which would average to 2.2, but am still a 1-star overall.
Your overall is your median rating.
Then its impossible to get to 2?
Wish we could get recruiting news and summer notes as often as the reddit updates.
+1 Insightful
Anyone know how I can update my karma? I had a decent comment over the weekend that may have put me over 500 karma, making me a 3-star. I cannot find a way to update this. Help?
The game devs locked karma, after some red players complained that we were brigading reddit. There's no way to update it now.
Thanks for the explanation. Sad that effort does not pay. Guess I am stuck as a two star barring a miracle MVP win.
MVPs aren't awards. Awards are a separate thing that you get from other r/CFB related things. An MVP won't push you up rankings wise.